"Are you ready?" Charlotte scanned her team of five members

This team consists of four girls and only one boy, which is Alexander.

How did I get myself into this situation in the first place... Alexander tried to ignore the deadly jealous looks that were being sent at him from all directions

Even Vincent was looking at him with eyes full of betrayal and disappointment

Charlotte's team consisted of her friends who were all the prettiest girls in the class

It would have been normal if her team was all girls but what was strange was that Alexander was part of this team

This made some boys feel encouraged to try to join this team but Charlotte rejected them

Even Vincent who came to them confidently as if he was already part of the team had been mercilessly rolled over by Charlotte

For some unknown reason, Alexander became the target of these students' resentment, as if he had rejected them, not Charlotte.

"We attract a lot of attention..." Alexander whispered near Charlotte

Charlotte frowned as she realized their situation but she justified it, " Weren't you the one who asked me to bring in trustworthy members who would follow everything I said?".

"This..." Alexander was helpless

This training trip involved forming teams and sending them to the instructor supervising this mission two days before they went to the dungeons

Although Alexander preferred to work separately, he knew that he had to form a team if he wanted to enter these dungeons, and after being inside the target location he could separate from them

That's why he wanted trusted members who could cover for him in case something happened while he was away

He didn't want to be a target for suspicion in case something happened inside that unknown place

If something did happen, his comrades would testify that he was with them the whole time and hadn't separated from them for a moment

He had entrusted this mission to Charlotte

However, he didn't expect the situation to turn out like this

"You're a lucky boy..." A short girl with yellow hair in a ponytail approached and nudged Alexander lightly, "It might be scary inside, so we'll rely on you to protect us."

Alexander shrank as the girl nudged him with her elbow.

Not because of her touch but because the hostile looks had become more intense, making him feel cold despite wearing heavy clothes

This little devil... Alexander looked at this girl and raised his hand

But at the last moment he moved his hand to scratch his hair instead of directing it towards this girl's face.

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Then Alexander looked at the students around him cautiously

The atmosphere was freezing as if he was inside a huge refrigerator

But the students didn't seem to have much of a problem with that

Students who use the fire element can raise their body temperature., which caused steam to be emitted from their bodies

As for the wind element users, they could deflect the wind away from them, which alleviated the cold

And the earth element users could absorb heat from the ground

Maybe the water element users were the only ones who would be in trouble in such an atmosphere

As for Alexander, he was the weakest here in terms of his resistance to the cold because he couldn't use any element

This made him look at Charlotte with some envy

This girl was able to control the ice element made this environment ideal for her and the cold wouldn't bother her even if she was naked.

"Jenny, stop teasing him." Charlotte wasn't happy with her friend's actions

Jenny raised her hands innocently, "I was just kidding..."

"Let's move, we have a lot of work ahead of us..." Charlotte picked up a silver spear and started moving, ordering her team to pick up their weapons and move forward, she knew that Alexander was very popular among the girls because of his appearance and because he was from a family believed to belong to the upper nobility class

In addition, he was the friendly type who was easy to deal with, especially after he presented a skin-softening and lightening recipe on his first day, which is considered a priceless treasure for every girl.

This made many girls seriously think about confessing their love to him, but there was a giant wall preventing them from taking this step

Charlotte Grace

Charlotte was around the new student all the time, at first they thought she was helping him get to know the place and nothing more

But this situation continued for a very long time as they were seen together in the cafeteria and in the library or walking around the garden or even going to the restaurant together

There are even strange rumors that Charlotte was watching Marco in secret, as if she was some kind of scary stalker

But not many believed these theories because Charlotte's cold and unapproachable personality was ingrained in their minds

This made the girls give up before they even tried.

No matter how beautiful or well-mannered they were, they wouldn't be able to beat Charlotte, and if any of them tried to challenge Charlotte and confess to Marco, all they would do is embarrass themselves in front of everyone.

Charlotte entered through a huge stone gate that looked like it was the entrance to a giant snow-covered mountain, and her team followed her quietly.

Only Alexander stopped at the gate and looked closely at the engravings that had been vandalized on both sides of the gate.

He touched the engravings, trying to figure out their pattern.

Charlotte stopped and looked at Alexander, "Is there a problem?"

The rest of the girls looked at him as well, and they could see that Alexander was looking at the engravings on the gate, and he had a worried and tense face.

Alexander gave up on delving into the matter and started walking towards them, "I was just wondering who vandalized this site."

As he asked this question, he was looking at Charlotte, waiting to get an answer from her

Charlotte glanced at the gate carvings, and replied with what she knew, “As far as I know, the inscriptions on the gate and inside the tunnels were already found vandalized and defaced when the dungeons were first discovered. They believe that the extreme climate of the area caused this.”

"Oh..." Alexander was next to Charlotte at the front of the team, but his eyes were roaming anxiously and cautiously over the walls of the dungeons.

In his eyes, it did not seem like something natural, but rather more like an act of sabotage.

Suddenly, without any warning, a memory emerged from the depths of his imprisoned memories.

It was a memory that included the execution of the saboteur soldiers who had carried out acts of sabotage inside the tunnels connected to the bunker where their unit was stationed.

The officers had ordered the soldiers to dig and explore these old tunnels in the hope of finding a passage through which they could bypass the enemy forces to carry out a surprise attack.

However, all the soldiers participating in the digging and exploration operations continued to complain about strange sounds coming from inside the tunnels, as if something was crawling inside them.

In addition, all communication devices were malfunctioning for an unknown reason as soon as they were entered into those tunnels..

As they went deeper and deeper into those tunnels, the soldiers' complaints gradually grew louder, to the point that some of them began a rebellion that was suppressed by force.

According to their statements, There was an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched by something while they were in the tunnels, and even after they got out of them, that feeling remained.

Another problem was that all the soldiers had nightmares about being in the tunnels while being chased by something of unknown nature.

It would have been insignificant if it had come from one soldier, but this feeling haunted all the soldiers, in addition to the fact that they had gone through the same nightmare.

This increased the turmoil of the entire unit due to fear. They were in the middle of a devastating war, so none of them were in a fit state to confront any supernatural case.

Some of them even spread rumors about the existence of cursed graves inside those tunnels.

But the officers in charge of them ordered the excavation operations to continue.

After the officers were stubborn and did not listen to the complaints submitted to them, some soldiers began sabotage operations in order to close those tunnels once and for all.

But it seems that someone has betrayed them, which led to all the saboteurs being arrested before they could complete their plan.

This whole thing ended with the execution scene that was carried out on those saboteurs.

This scene still replays in his mind as if he had witnessed it yesterday.

The execution of the saboteurs was the beginning of everything

Everything was normal at the time, they were just soldiers who disobeyed the orders of their officers, so they were executed by firing squad in front of the rest of the soldiers. to serve as an example

But what no one knew was that the execution that was carried out was nothing more than a cover used to carry out something completely different

This was not an execution, it was....

human sacrifices